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Okay, this is a bit of a 'bucking of the trend' for this forum, but it's the best resource I've ever found online and it IS related to scripting...just more the methods then any particular language. It's also the closest thing I've come to a discussion of dynamic driven PRINT page design.

As I constantly mention <g> I'm working on a flyer. The flyer layout is broken down like this:

Page > Vendor Frame > Item Frame > Variations of Items (Line items)

Vendor Boxes are rectangles of varying proportion (depending on how they fit on the page).

I've got the code to lay out a box for a company and lay out the items to a grid within that box. The problem is, sometimes an item has to be emphasized and has to break from the grid and span two rows or columns (within company frame). That means that when placing items in the next row that column needs to be skipped. (assuming the item frame spans 2 rows).

Resizing the item frame itself isn't hard (just include a field in the database that multiplies the dimension, make the default value "1" and change specified items to "2") what IS difficult is
a)skipping the expanded item space
b)having it change the vertical dimension in some cases and the horizontal in others.

(I also have an issue with multiple items that should be grouped together but that's a different story <g>)

I'm not interested in the code itself at this point, more the METHOD (although sometimes that IS hard to explain without posting code). I figured if anybody would know about this sort of stuff it's this gang. <g> Keep it as general as possible...we all see these catalog questions come up and I'm sure some of them get this in depth -- this could be one for the archives!